FRIDAY MARCH 23, 2024

6pm-8pm (18:00-20:00)

We Live Here, OKP30

Oudekerksplein 30, Amsterdam

(wheelchair accessible)

Event is in Dutch, English, Spanish, and Portugese! // Je verhalen zijn welkom om gedeeld te worden in de volgende talen: Engels, Nederlands, Spaans, en Portugees.

On Friday, March 23rd, 2024 from 6:00pm-8:00pm, we will present another edition of our series Sounds of the Center: music, stories, and food.

Come and enjoy a free meal* with your neighbours and a special concert that is co-created with the audience – share your personal stories (NL, EN, ESP, or PT) and be transported as our talented local musicians spontaneously transform your tales into enchanting musical pieces.

Chieko Donker Duyvis (cellist, vocalist, composer) and Eve Matin (harpist, composer) will perform will perform as a trio, specially for this event, to transform your stories into jazzy, folk musical narratives.

This event will take place at the We Live Here information centre. We Live Here works to support and provide an insight into the lives of residents of De Wallen, and serves as a community space for neighbours to come together.

*vegetarian options available

Iara de Carvalho Perillo (2000) obtained her Bachelor in Classical Flute at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. She has collaborated with many (project) orchestras and ensembles including the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, Ricciotti Ensemble and Orchestre Partout. 

Currently Iara is part of the Jong Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (JongNBE), and studies her Master in Live Electronics CvA. As well she is active as soloist and (co-)leader in various chamber music ensembles, including the Paleia trio (flute/violin/viola) and Duo Dufonte (flute/harp). 

Next to these classical ensembles she also is part of the crossover ensemble Nachtlicht, interdisciplinary trio I-MOTION and interdisciplinary ensemble

‘W O R D S’.

Joan Fort (1997) is a catalan musician and guitarist based in Amsterdam (NL), where he graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Temple University of Philadelphia with a Master’s Degree in Jazz Guitar Perfomance. Prior to this, he studied his bachelor in Barcelona at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya).

During his stay there, in Spring 2023 he recorded the album ‘Master St’ with jazz saxophone legend Dick Oatts and his co-leaded band ‘The Dam Jawn’, in May 2023 they released the album and toured across the Netherlands and Spain. Joan has had the pleasure to play at renowned festivals and clubs around the world. 

As a bass player, Anja has already shared the stage with various established musicians such as Ernst Glerum and Jamie Peet and has been starting to write her own music for the past two years.

She is currently the leader of the NJTA PROJECT, an Amsterdam based quartet. In July 2022, they won the 1st prize of the Conad Jazz Competition – Umbria Jazz Festival, Italy “for the completeness of the project, the care in the arrangements, the technical quality, the stylistic and improvisational maturity.”

Their music is inspired, among others, by the melancholic Swedish folk tradition, balancing between lyrical, songlike melodies and groovy bass lines. NJTA are currently in the process of making their debut album, consisting of their own compositions and new music.

SATURDAY MARCH 23, 2024

2pm-4pm (14:00-16:00)

Prostitution Information Center

Enge Kerksteeg 3, 1012 GV Amsterdam

(building entrance has 2 steps)

Event is in Dutch, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese! // Je verhalen zijn welkom om gedeeld te worden in de volgende talen: Engels, Nederlands, Spaans, Portugees, Japans.

On Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 from 2:00pm-4:00pm, we are so excited to present the final edition of our series Sounds of the Center: music, stories, and food.

Chieko Donker Duyvis (cellist, vocalist, composer) and Eve Matin (harpist, composer) will perform for the occasion, creating dream-like soundscapes to accompany the storytelling and shape words into sounds. 

This event is a collaboration with the Prostitution Information Centre, a key location within De Wallen neighbourhood, providing not only support to sex workers, but education and information to all about sex work.

*vegan options available

Chieko is an interdisciplinary artist, cellist, vocalist and composer from Amsterdam with Brazilian/Japanese roots. Starting as a classical cellist, she created her own path in music, studying Masters in Latin American vocals, jazz improvisation and composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. She has toured Europe, Asia, Mexico and Brazil and was invited to play her compositions several times at Concertgebouw and national television and writes film music for several Documentaries.

The Prostitution Information Centre (PIC) is a key space in the heart of De Wallen, and the location for our upcoming Sounds of the Centre: music, stories, and food. 

The PIC provides information to all about sex work from the perspective of sex workers, and is a unique and friendly place where everyone can come in to ask questions, look around, read books or simply enjoy a cup of coffee.

PAST EDITIONS

DECEMBER 15 2023

FIRST EDITION LOCATION:

Buurtkamer De Moddermolen
Moddermolenstraat 26, Amsterdam 

(building is accessible)

This Friday, December 15th from 12:30-2:30pm, we are so excited to present you all the FIRST EDITION in our new series Binnenstadse Klanken: muziek, verhalen en eten. Come and enjoy a free meal with your neighbours (*sign up required) and a special concert that is co-created with the audience – share your personal stories (NL & EN) and be transported as our talented local musicians spontaneously transform your tales into enchanting musical pieces.

FREE
12:30 lunch* (reservation required)
13:00 programme 

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Majoor Bosshardthuis

Oudezijds Armsteeg 19, 1012 GP Amsterdam

(building is accessible // rolstoeltoegankelijk)

Event is in Dutch & English! // Nederlands- en Engelstalig evenement 

On Saturday February 17th from 12:00-2:00pm, we are so excited to present another edition of our series Sounds of the Center: music, stories, and food.

Come and enjoy a free lunch* with your neighbours and a special concert that is co-created with the audience – share your personal stories (NL & EN) and be transported as our talented local musicians spontaneously transform your tales into enchanting musical pieces.

This event is a collaboration with the Leger des Heils, in the exhibition room of the Majoor Bosshardthuis – the oldest brick house in Amsterdam. Afterwards, there will be free tours of the Majoor Bosshardthuis!

Hinse Mutter (double bass) and Albert Manders (flute), co-founders of RLAC, and Willem Wits (percussion), will perform as a musical trio for the occasion. As neighborhood residents and professional musicians, they will accompany the storytelling and shape words into sounds.

*vegetarian options available

Willem Wits (1989) is an interdisciplinary artist.

He works as a writer, musician, theatre- and filmmaker.

Often times these disciplines overlap, or the resulting work floats somewhere in between.

His solo work is often about isolation and extreme lengths of time.

When working together, he likes to look for connection with the outside world.

Hinse Mutter is a bass player, composer and organizer. He studied classical double bass in Rotterdam and played with many Dutch orchestras, such as the Metropole Orkest and the Ludwig Ensemble. As a composer he has written many songs, works for orchestra and chamber music, and has arranged dozens of pieces of music. As a producer he has worked with amongst others the Netherlands Radio Choir, and as a producer for the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the Ludwig Ensemble.

Albert Manders is one of the founders of Red Light Arts & Culture and is a composer, flutist, artistic and executive director. He moved from the US to Amsterdam in 2006 to study contemporary flute and composition. Interested in all sides of artistic expression and cultural management he has worked in many roles including chamber musician, artistic leadership, financial direction, production, and marketing, and has created a number of music(theater) projects including Eendagsliederen, Passing Sounds and SLOT. He is currently the business manager of Echonance Festival in Amsterdam at Orgelpark and teaches improvisation at Jam with Humans.